As an official part of the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, the group exhibition, ‘TIME SPACE EXISTENCE’, will be held at the Palazzo Bembo. In this exhibition MOB architects will present the installation entitled ‘Boundaries’, which is about concepts that determine the boundaries of inhabited spaces: “Boundaries define spaces or areas, disconnect or gradually separate the private from the public, mark the beginning and the end of a function. Generally speaking, however, they enclose what is thought of as safe, personal, predictable. They may also propose particular ways of seeing things, through framing views or forming sightlines. They may create barriers and forbid entry, or allow interaction. Boundaries in architecture can be natural, such as those that arise from proximity to elements of the landscape, or are structures, more or less solid, transparent or opaque. Seen in a more abstract way, boundaries can be marks, signs, traces in space and time, explicit or implicit …”
Mob architects is an innovative architectural practice working in Athens, with extensive experience in architectural design. General Partners are Vassilis Baskozos and Daria Tsagaraki. Projects of the practice include industrial buildings and settings, office buildings, bank branches, public open spaces, urban design, landscaping, many residences and residential complexes, shops, interior design etc. MOB architects have been awarded from the Hellenic Institute of Architecture with the First Prize for the best house within the period of 1999 – 2004 for the project “Two – Family Vacation House in Porto Rafti”. They also gained a “WAF shortlisted” nomination in “World Architecture Festival 2008” with the project «Four Houses». In 2011 they were honored from the Hellenic Association of Architects, with the Award of best realized building of the years 2005 – 2010 in Greece, for the project “House in Chalandri”. Their work has been presented in architectural exhibitions within and outside Greece such as: exhibition of Mediterranean Architecture in Montpellier – France 2000 / Athens – Scape: the 2004 Olympics and the metabolism of the city – London 2003 / EU – Japan Year of People – to – People Exchanges 2005 “On: the Modern and the Contemporary in European and Japanese culture” in Tokyo 2006, etc. In March 2013 at the Benaki Museum, the monographic exhibition under the title “MOB architects: Works and approaches”, was held. The exhibition was organized by the Hellenic Institute of Architecture in collaboration with the Neohellenic Architecture Archives. Projects of the team are frequently published in the local architectural press and have been presented in international architecture sites and reviews including: L’ Architettura (Italy), ViA Arquitectura (Spain), DBZ (Germany), Architecture Méditerranéenne (France), Abstract (Belgium), Stavba (Czech Republic), Design Vision (Hong Kong), etc.
Duration: 7 June to 23 November 2014
Pre-View: 6 June 2014 at 19:00
Open: Daily 10:00 – 18:00, Closed on Tuesday
Palazzo Bembo, Riva del Carbon #4793, Venezia
Second floor, Room 15A
MOB ARCHITECTS